Since we are heading out of the country, I wanted to try a bunch of new foods before we left, to maximize the options for P. As you can probably imagine, I’m not really keen on the idea of trying various foods for the first time while we are oceans apart from our MD (and the coverage of health care). I am bringing 3 epi-pens with me and I’d like to return with the same amount. Benadryl can fill in the gaps if there’s cross contamination, but for the 2 weeks we are gone, I’m… Read more >
Elise
March 3, 2014
chia seeds, strawberriesallergy, baby
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Swoon. We spent too much time at Lamps Plus last Sunday buying a chandelier for…drumroll…our new house!!! I am still in shock. More on that later. In the two hours it took to find a suitable chandelier and matching chain, P managed to pee through an outfit and get super hungry. Like a total rookie mom, I was prepared for neither. We left at 11:30 thinking it would be a 30 minute trip, tops. But we were way wrong. Needless to say I made it work. I changed him in the car and cleaned… Read more >
Elise
March 2, 2014
chickpeas, eggs, kale, oatmeal, root veggies, yogurtbaby
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We ran out of eggs before the end of the week but I refuse to ruin the budget by going to the store. I gave P the last two, scrambled with spinach, just like he likes them. Luckily I had one hard boiled egg left for me. I layered the slices atop avocado toast. We both had blueberries on the side. P had an entire zucchini muffin (cut into small bite sized pieces) with his eggs and blueberries. I used the same recipe as I did here only I bumped up the coconut aminos to… Read more >
Elise
February 28, 2014
avocado, big salad, bon appetit, chicken, chocolate, eggs, smoothie, spinach salad, the essential baking co, zucchinibaby
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Another post on allergy friendly baby meals (and other ideas/thoughts/notes). Here we are at 12 months… I was telling my mom recently that each day it feels like two steps forward & one step back in the eating department. [Actually I said one step forward, two steps back, but we really are moving in the positive so that’s an inaccurate portrayal of the situation] Truth be told, I bet all parents feel like this, even the ones without children with allergies. Some days he eats everything that touches his tray, other days he refuses… Read more >
Elise
February 25, 2014
broccoli, coconut, eggs, juice, kaleallergy, baby
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I called both Delta and Virgin airlines this past week to try to see if there was anything special I needed to do when flying with a child with peanut/sesame (tree nut, etc) allergies. The short answer: there’s not. Basically for liability reasons they cannot guarantee that he won’t be served something that’s been contaminated so I should prepare and bring my own food and epi-pen. [Not surprising] Realistically, I’d probably do that anyway. And it would be a huge risk for them to promise there was zero cross contamination or exposure to an… Read more >
Elise
February 19, 2014
Uncategorizedallergy, baby
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